SWICCA - Service for Water Indicators in Climate Change Adaptation

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SWICCA - Service for Water Indicators in Climate Change Adaptation

Making climate data useful in water-management decisions

This proof-of-concept of a Service for Water Indicators in Climate Change Adaptation (SWICCA) aims to bridge the gap between institutes who provide climate-impact data on one side, and water managers and policy makers on the other side. This is mainly done through strengthening the capacity of consultants and agencies, known as ‘knowledge purveyors’, who act as the interface between data providers and water managers.

SWICCA will deliver an interactive web site with pan-European data for visualisation, inspection and download. Local consultancies and agencies should easily access the most relevant climate-impact indicators, along with tools for using this data locally in climate adaptation. User co-design and evaluation of efficacy cover 15 case studies across Europe by a bottom-up approach. The agile SWICCA project will finally offer:

New climate-impact indicators, representing past climate, seasonal forecasts, and different time-slices in the future.

Pan-European spatial patterns of the projected changes as ensemble means.

Download functions of indicator statistics in any chosen area for the full ensemble.

Tools for downscaling and correction, to adapt each indicator to local conditions.

Instructions, tutorial videos, and examples from case-studies on how to use the climate-impact indicators in a local workflow of water management.

Capacity building of consultant companies by participation in the SWICCA learning network and web-based forum for knowledge brokerage.

The SWICCA workflow

The SWICCA project is run from November 2015 to February 2018 by the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI) together with 10 sub-contractors from across Europe and 3 in-kind partners.